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ART, Landscapes, Oil Paintings, Watercolor Paintings

Commission Painting – Window

March 4, 2012 Sydni 1 Comment

Documenting my next commission painting. View from a Window. Oil on canvas, 30″ x 48″ (about two-thirds of a doorway). Mediocre photography by me :-P.

The lines are completely straight, I promise, though they look bowed and tilted in the photo. I finished it and sent it to its new home a few weeks ago.

Preliminary watercolor sketches:

Detail:

Distance is already a challenge for me. In fact, that landscape a couple posts ago was a bit of distance-practice while working on this commission. Gonna keep trying :).

ART, Landscapes, Oil Paintings

Finished Landscape

February 19, 2012 Sydni 4 Comments

Calling it finished. I added more detail in the foreground, amongst the shrubberies, and glazed over the darker areas with some alizarin crimson. I tried to build up a simple foreground/mid-ground/background, but they’re not as distinct from each other as I would like. Have a look at the previous post for in progress photos. I welcome all the feedback :).

ART, Landscapes, Oil Paintings

In Progress: Landscape Painting

February 11, 2012 Sydni 3 Comments

Lately I’ve been getting requests for landscape paintings, but they’re tough for me. Conveying distance and deep space isn’t easy. Time to practice. Here are some in-progress photos of my current attempt. It’s not yet finished; I’ll post the final version soon. -oil on canvas.

1UpwardView - oil on canvas - 16x20 — Step 1 – Horizon

2UpwardView - oil on canvas - 16x20 — Step 2

3UpwardView - oil on canvas - 16x20 — Step 3 – more blue

4UpwardView - oil on canvas - 16x20 — Step 4 – some ochre, some umber

5UpwardView - oil on canvas - 16x20 — Step 5 – some pthalo blue (to create green) and a touch of red

6UpwardView - oil on canvas - 16x20 — Step 6 – some details

turner_watercolour — I need to study up more on painters like Joseph Mallord William Turner, in whose paintings you can see for miles: ^ this is one of his watercolor landscapes.

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Artist to Note

January 28, 2012 Sydni Leave a comment

Take a look at Matt’s paintings on Matt Sterbenz Fine Art. He and I were fellow painting students at ASU a year ago. See for yourself what a fantastic painter he is, and how well he explains his process.

He is presently trying to fulfill a challenge to paint 100 tiny (5″x7″) landscapes. I might like to take on such a challenge :). Stay tuned ~

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Commission Painting

October 23, 2011 Sydni Leave a comment

Before this commission, I’d never attempted anything western. But this was fun to try, especially with the desert landscape and wildflowers. Arizona is my home, after all :).

This painting was finished and sent off last week. It’s oil on canvas, 18″x24″. I’m showing here the preliminary watercolor sketch as well…….